Ok, this is really confusing me - most of the more advance web masters on here are like "No!! Never use tables!! Do it with CSS!!" so ive researched it, but i jus cannot get my head around it!!
do any of you know easy, simple to follow tutorials that I can use to help me get it together?
thanks
JowkaI would not say "never", I would just say to use tables only for what they were intended: the markup of tabular data. Anyway, a few links to check out:
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<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/">http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/Sometimes">http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prac ... /Sometimes</a><!-- m --> reading about it doesn't work. You have to sit with notepad and Firefox and see what happens when you enter and change code.
It's a different way of thinking for some of us. It ain't HTML. But if you've coded HTML for a long time it may take a while to switch gears because it's just not the same thing.
I find a lot of people who get hung up on how the HTML presents the page when they should really remember to leave that up to CSS. You have to think more like a graphic designer with CSS and not a coder/programmer. Perhaps you should start thinking about "divs as containers of elements" and that you can move those containers around the browser and color them at will. Then create three divs and do that with simple text/paragraphs. Then build on that.
But quit book-learnin' .thnx dr howard, ill try that - ive only been coding in html for a couple of months. . .so a swingaround shuldnt be too hard hopefully,
ill hav a look at div tagsCheck out Cederholm's book. And rather than Notepad+Fx I'd recommend creating your page with semantically correct HTML then using the CSS/Edit CSS capability of the Web Developer extension to learn how to apply CSS.
do any of you know easy, simple to follow tutorials that I can use to help me get it together?
thanks
JowkaI would not say "never", I would just say to use tables only for what they were intended: the markup of tabular data. Anyway, a few links to check out:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss">http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/">http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/Sometimes">http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prac ... /Sometimes</a><!-- m --> reading about it doesn't work. You have to sit with notepad and Firefox and see what happens when you enter and change code.
It's a different way of thinking for some of us. It ain't HTML. But if you've coded HTML for a long time it may take a while to switch gears because it's just not the same thing.
I find a lot of people who get hung up on how the HTML presents the page when they should really remember to leave that up to CSS. You have to think more like a graphic designer with CSS and not a coder/programmer. Perhaps you should start thinking about "divs as containers of elements" and that you can move those containers around the browser and color them at will. Then create three divs and do that with simple text/paragraphs. Then build on that.
But quit book-learnin' .thnx dr howard, ill try that - ive only been coding in html for a couple of months. . .so a swingaround shuldnt be too hard hopefully,
ill hav a look at div tagsCheck out Cederholm's book. And rather than Notepad+Fx I'd recommend creating your page with semantically correct HTML then using the CSS/Edit CSS capability of the Web Developer extension to learn how to apply CSS.